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No. 741,226. PATENTED 001". 13, 1903 ROLEA'RY.

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APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 23. 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 1%, i903 EDWARD OLEARY, OF EEIDGEPOET, CONNE TTCUT, ASSIGNOR T THE CONNECTICUT WEB COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

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srrcrrioarroiv forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,226, dated October 13, 1903.

Serial No. 149,099- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD OLEARY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in suspender-buokles, and is equally applicable to either the single or double lever buckles, both of which are in use upon suspenders, and further relates to a buckle formed of wire and sheet metal combined. Combined Wire and sheet-metal buckles have heretofore been constructed in numerous ways, some employing a ferrule to connect the uniting ends of the wire together, while in others the ends of the wire frame have been disposed inwardly to form pivotal ears, 011 which the lever is hinged.

This latter construction does not, as a rule, form as strong a buckle as in the former instance, where the lever is pivoted to a solid bar extending clear across the frame. In my present construction therefore I have produced a frame from a single piece of wire with solid transverse pivotal bars and a sheetmetal back attached thereto bearing an apron, against which the clamping-lever operates.

It is the object of my invention to improve,

simplify, and cheapen the construction of suspender-buckles formed of wire and sheet metal combined and in a way to insure a rigid wire frame with integral solid horizontal bars, and finally to produce a buckle of attractive appearance when applied to a suspender.

\Vith these ends in view my invention resides and consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts shown upon the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this specification, upon which similar letters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures.

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a single-lever buckle constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the special construction of wire frame employed in mybuckle. Fig. 3 is a similar detail plan view of the sheet-metal part or back of the buckle-frame, including the apron against which the clamping-lever operates. 4; is an enlarged detail plan view of the wire frame andsheet-metal back united together and in a way to secure the uniting points of the frame rigid together. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional elevation of my special joint uniting the wire and frame and sheet-metal back, as also seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is an open plan view of adouble-lever buckle, the frame of which is constructed in accordance with my invention and similar to that shown in Figs. 1 and at.

Referring in detail to the letters of refer ence marked upon the drawings, A represents a frame of substantially rectangular shape formed of asingle piece of wire and comprising horizontal pivotal bars Z) and c and parallel sides (Z and d for the attachment of the back. The ends of the wire frame are brought together at c, midway of one side and dis posed inwardly, forming right-angular dis posed ends f, lying parallel with the bars and forming shoulders,as clearly appears in Fig. 2.

G represents the sheet-metal back of the frame, the same comprising an apron 71, against which the lever of the buckles operates, and eyes 2' and j, the former encircling the plain side 01 of the frame, while the latter, which is formed of the divided end 70 of the blank, is likewise turned over the opposite vertically-disposed side d of the frame with the divided end of the blank straddling the inwardly-disposed ends of the wire frame in a manner to rigidly retain it in place and likewise to firmly attach the sheet-metal back to the wire member, as clearly appears in the several figures of the drawings.

M represents the clamping-lever wire,which is of the usual form, comprising pivotal eyes 72. to encircle'the horizontal wire bar b of the frame, a toothed arm 0, and an operatingarm p, by means of which the suspender-web is clamped against the apron h of the frame.

The frame of the doubled-lever buckle shown in Fig. 6 is substantially like that illustrated in the other figures, except that the sheet-metal back portion of the frame contains two aprons, one being indicated by h and the other by h. It is also provided with an additional lever Q for clamping the J together and deflected inward at a right an- F web to the frame, which lever may be provided with suitable holes Q for lightening the same, this latter construction of lever and apronbeing employed for the attachment of the end of web in lieu of sewing, as is necessary in a single-lever buckle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A suspender-buckle frame, of one piece of wire, comprising substantially a rectangular shape with its free ends brought together, and deflected to form shoulders on one side, a sheet-metal back extending across the frame attached to the frame having a divided eye to encircle and straddle said shouldered ends of the wire in a manner to retain them together. v

2. A frame for a Suspender-buckle, the same comprising a frame formed of a single piece of wire, including horizontal transverse bars and parallel side portions, inwardly-disposed lugs formed of the uniting ends of the Wire on one of such sides, a sheet-metal back extending across the frame bearing eyes to encircle said sides and to straddle said shouldered ends of the wire frame at one side, in a manner to firmly unite the same.

3. A Suspender-buckle formed of wire and sheet metal combined, and comprising a single wire frame, the ends of which are brought gle and against each other, a sheet-metal back for said frame comprising inpart an apron and eyes to encircle portions of the frame including said abutting ends in a manner to straddle and secure the same together and to efiect the attachment of the back to said frame, and a lever pivoted to the horizontal bars of the frame.

4. A suspender-buckle formed of a single piece of wire and sheet metal, and comprising substantially a rectangular frame with its two ends brought together at one side and deflected inward at substantially a right angle, a sheet-metal back attached to each side of said wire frame and covering the uniting points of said wire and straddling such ends in a way to firmly retain them together, and a clamping-lever pivoted to the Wire frame.

5. In a Suspender-buckle the combination With a clamping-lever, of a frame comprising a single piece of wire bent to substantially rectangular shape with its two free ends brought together at one side and deflected inward at a right angle to form shoulders at i said joining-point, a sheet-metal back having an apron for the lever and eyes for attach- 'ment to the frame, one of such eyes being divided to straddle the two free ends of the v wire in a manner to secure them together.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, this 9th day of March, A. D. 1903.

EDWARD GLEARY. Witnesses:

O. M. NEWMAN, EDWARD K. NICHOLSON. 

